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The folly and unreasonableness of atheism : demonstrated from the advantage and pleasure of a religious life, the faculties of human souls, the structure of animate bodies, & the origin and frame of the world: in eight sermons preached at the lecture founde by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire; in the first year MDCXCII

Archive Print Item: All Souls Theology 4/BEN

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Title: The folly and unreasonableness of atheism : demonstrated from the advantage and pleasure of a religious life, the faculties of human souls, the structure of animate bodies, & the origin and frame of the world: in eight sermons preached at the lecture founde by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire; in the first year MDCXCII

Other titles: The folly of atheism, and (what is now called) deism; even with respect to the present life; Matter and motion cannot think: or, A confutation of atheism from the faculties of the soul; A confutation of atheism from the structure and origin of humane bodies; A confutation of atheism from the origin and frame of the world

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Classmark: All Souls Theology 4/BEN

Creator(s): Bentley, Richard (1662-1742)

Publisher: Printed by J.H. for H. Mortlock

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1693

Language: English

Size and medium: 8 pts. in 1

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/233806

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012813589705181

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This edition consists of eight separate sermons, as originally published, bound together with a collective t.p. There is some variation between different copies as to which editions of the individual sermons are included.


Titles within double line borders.


Contents: The folly of atheism. Fourth edition, 1693. -- Matter and motion cannot think. Third edition, 1694. -- A confutation of atheism from the structure and origin of human bodies. Part 1. Third edition, 1693. -- A confutation of atheism from the structure and origin of human bodies. Part 2. Second edition, 1693. -- A confutation of atheism from the structure and origin of human bodies. The third and last part. Third edition, 1694. -- A confutation of atheism from the origin and frame of the world. Part 1. Second edition, 1694. -- A confutation of atheism from the origin and frame of the world. Part 2. 1694. -- A confutation of atheism from the origin and frame of the world. The third and last part. 1693.


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